Opmerkingen bij Google Earth-releases

Problemen die in deze release van de Google Earth-client zijn verholpen

Afbeeldingstegels van terrein ontbreken op sommige locaties.
Opnemen en afspelen van audio voor tour werken niet.
Tours met opgenomen audio worden niet correct opgeslagen.
Crash bij het laden van grote KML-gegevensbestanden.
Slepen en neerzetten van bestanden in de toepassing werkt niet.
KMZ-bestanden met een pad waarin .kmz is opgenomen, kunnen niet worden geopend.
Skyscrapers worden afgekapt bij het opslaan van afbeeldingen met een hoge resolutie.
COM-registratie wordt niet uitgevoerd door Windows-installatieprogramma.
Sommige afbeeldingen die in KML zijn ingesloten, worden niet geladen.
Anisotropisch filter heeft geen effect.
Opstarttips zijn soms onjuist gepositioneerd.
Labels in het Arabisch werden vaak afgekapt.

Wijzigingen

De kosteloze versie van Earth en Pro is nu gecombineerd tot één product: Google Earth Pro.
Windows: Windows 7 is de oudste versie die wordt ondersteund.
Windows: nieuwe installaties starten standaard in OpenGL-modus.
Mac: Mac OS 10.8 is de oudste versie die wordt ondersteund.
Mac: toepassing is nu 64-bits.
Mac: anti-aliasoptie is nu beschikbaar.
Ondersteuning voor schermen met hoge resolutie (hoge DPI, retina).
Nieuwe reparatietool om cachegegevens en instellingen te resetten en opstartproblemen van toepassing op te lossen.
Movie Maker heeft nieuwe video-indelingen.
Betere prestaties bij opslaan van afbeeldingen, afdrukken en maken van films.
Tool Web Inspector beschikbaar voor KML-ballonnen.
HTML5-videos, zoals insluitingen in YouTube, werken in plaatsmarkeringsballonnen.
Geüpdatete en verbeterde interne webbrowser en beveiliging.

Bekende problemen

Functie 'Delen met Google+' werkt niet.
SSL-clientcertificaten worden momenteel niet ondersteund.
Werkbalkknoppen en iconen in UI zijn wazig bij hoge DPI.
Windows: ondersteuning voor hoge DPI wordt pas geactiveerd als de pixelschaal 200% of hoger is (gebruik googleearth2x.bat om hoge DPI te forceren).

Issues fixed in this release Google Earth Client

We have included another fix for the unified_cache_leveldb_leveldb2 directory filling beyond specified cache limits for some Windows and Macintosh users.
Imagery no longer stays blurry upon zooming in when the cache is full.
Certain NVIDIA cards, notably the GeForce 6600, 6800 and 7950, no longer suffer corrupted text or navigation controls in DirectX mode.
Font and tilt settings now stick between sessions.
Balloon opens now display when recording tours.
We have included UI improvements to Flight Simulator.
When printing, the scale legend now displays correct distances.
Collada models now display with uncorrupted textures.
Polygons and image overlays now display correctly across the Antimeridian.
We fixed an issue with certain GPU - driver combinations whereby no imagery displayed in the client.
The time slider in Sun and Historical Imagery features now displays the correct Daylight Savings time.
Performance and stability improvements.
[Pro] Artifact .avi files are no longer created when rendering movies from tours on Windows. [Pro] Calculating a Viewshed in parts of the southern hemisphere no longer displays an error.
[Pro] The scale legend in the print flow no longer disappears when view is tilted, nor does it change between high-, medium- and low-quality prints

Known issues

On certain Radeon GPUs, specifically the X1600, SketchUp Buildings appear corrupted when Atmosphere is on. As a workaround, enable 3D Imagery in 3D View > Terrain or turn off Atmosphere.
Elevation Profile displays as blank on Mac machines running certain NVIDIA GeForce GPUs.
On Macintosh OS, the Google Earth Plugin will not install in Firefox while Firefox is running. As a workaround, install the Plugin when Firefox is closed. Note that this bug does not affect updating the Plugin, only the first installation.
Audio recorded in tours does not play across platforms. As a workaround, record a tour on the OS that you intend to use while playing the tour.
Tours stop recording when there is no 3D View movement during recording.
For users running Intel 965 Express Chipsets on Windows XP and Windows Vista, Earth will appear pixelated when run in OpenGL mode. As a workaround, run Earth in DirectX mode.
[Pro] Print style options are broken when Atmosphere is off. To enable these options, ensure that Atmosphere is on.
[Pro] A Viewshed warning dialog appears for placemarks at ≤2m and a high tilt.
[Pro] After computing a Viewshed Earth areas outside the Viewshed zone suffer corruption. Exiting the Viewshed will correct the display of these areas.

New features in this release

Enhanced search, including support for:
- Clearer local business and directions search results. These now appear in full HTML in the left hand panel.
- Improved quality thresholds on search results.
- Walking directions, biking directions, and transit search.
- Search layers in local business searches. In a local business search, you now see all relevant results in the 3D view, 10 results in the search panel.
- Suggest in search. As you type a search query, search suggestions appear in a drop-down menu.
- Loading search results with one click, not two.

Improved imagery rendering, including:
- Google Earth imagery is significantly more seamless, especially at higher altitudes
- Fade-in animation for imagery as it is fetched.
- Anisotropic filtering by default.
- Improved level of detail calculation for imagery tiles.

Unified network stack. Google Earth now uses the same network stack for imagery, vector content, balloon content and embedded browser content. This will avoid situations where imagery loads but balloon content does not display under certain proxy settings.
Ability to share screenshots with your Google+ circles from within the Google Earth client.
Unified Google login mechanism in the client.
Improved performance with 3D buildings.

Issues fixed in this release

Google Earth Client

Fixed an issue where ground overlays without the "icon" tag did not render rectangles using the fill color. KML ground overlays where images fail to load will now draw rectangles using a default or user-specified fill color.
Added the ability to create balloon HTML for locally saved images using the “Add image” button.
Fixed proxy accessibility issues for the Google Earth Plug-in and Client.
Added the ability to update network links in parallel on synchronous updates.

Google Earth Browser Plug-in and API

Fixed an issue where the Google Earth Browser Plug-in generated an “ATL 10.0” error while running on Internet Explorer versions 8 and 9.
Fixed an issue where Google Earth Browser Plug-in wouldn’t resize on Firefox version 4 and above on Mac.
Fixed an issue where the “-” key was not working on Google Earth Plug-in on Mac.
Fixed an issue where the AJAX loader returned false for isSupported() on 64-bit browsers that are not supported.
Fixed the rendering order of imagery layers added through side databases.
Fixed an issue where 3D buildings did not update with changes in view when terrain is not visible.

Known issues in Google Earth 6.2

New search pages and screenshot sharing pages are not fully translated into all languages.
Text in the Google login box is clipped at the bottom.
Some instability and growth in memory usage is seen in long running or looping tours and while making movies from long tours.

New in Google Earth Pro:

Google Earth Pro has improved support for printing from the client. Changes include a legend with a North indicator and scale, controls for print/paper size, and improved performance.
Google Earth Pro has improved the experience of making movies by simplifying the user interface and improving performance in certain configurations.
Importing data files in Google Earth Pro is now easier with the ability to edit shared balloon style for folders and to increase the import categorization limit from 8 to 64.
Google Earth Pro now allows you to view an elevation profile while measuring.

In Google Earth (Consumer and Pro version):

Improved the robustness of network access by providing better support for Proxy and SSL certs. This will fix issues users have experienced of not being able to see balloon content or embedded browser content.
Improved the resolution seen in elevation profiles for lines and tracks.
Added the ability to sort “My Places,” and improved the user interface to be able find points across my places.
There were several improvements to Street View in Google Earth. We added the ability to zoom into a Street View photo by using a zoom slider. Street View in Earth feels more immersive now due to wider field of view. It is now faster and smoother to use. We made several small tweaks to the user interface including adding a way to navigate floors when you are indoors and there are multiple floors available in Street View.
Fixed bugs related to missing road labels in cases where roads were curvy or zoomed into.

In Google Earth API for browser plugins:

Added API for working with tours.

Fixed bugs and product changes:

To conform more closely with the OGC KML 2.2 standard, we've made the parsing of the <coordinates> tag more strict in version 6.1. Spaces must only be used to separate the (longitude,latitude,altitude) triplets which specify the coordinates of a single point. It is invalid to add spaces between individual coordinates. We understand that previous versions of the client were more lenient, so if your KML files contain spaces beween coordinates in coordinate triplets, an easy workaround is to remove all whitespace located immediately before or after commas inside a <coordinates> tag.
Several performance improvements that would allow smoother experience in specific computer configurations.
Fixed 'Restrict to View' functionality during a shapefile import in Google Earth Pro.
Fixed an issue where Google Earth would sometimes save incorrect ordering of elements in KML.
Added field of view recording to tours and ability to play back those changes.
Fixed an issue where the icon heading did not work in Google Earth API.
Changes to reduce occurrences of missing desktop icon and shortcut menu items on an update.
Sped up overlay polygon rendering in OpenGL mode.
Fixed loading of kmz files when the first file at the root level was image file.
Upgraded GDAL support to 1.7.0 and fixed issues with importing .tab files in Google Earth Pro.
Fixed the discrepancy caused in measurements due to multiple radii of Earth used inside Google Earth.
Fixed an issue where placemarks created with UTM coordinates did not move when edited.
Fixed an issue when screen overlays disappeared in a print-out.

New features in Google Earth 6

Integrated Street View: In Google Earth 6, the Street View experience is now fully integrated. You can enter Street View either by dropping pegman in navigation controls or by zooming in all the way to ground level on places that have Street View.
3D Trees:Google Earth now has trees. You can enable trees by turning on the check-box next to the Trees layer under the 3D buildings layer folder. You can see trees in several places, and we will add trees to more places over time.
Easy to use historical imagery:When you fly to an area where historical imagery is available, the date of the oldest imagery will appear in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. If you click on this date, you’ll instantly be taken back in time to view imagery from that time period.
Ground-level navigation: In Google Earth 6, in addition to flying around features, you can now walk on the ground to explore either 3D buildings and trees or Street View imagery.
3D Measurements in Google Earth Pro:In addition to measuring distances and areas on the ground, you can now measure heights and widths of 3D building and distances from buildings to the ground.

Other changes in Google Earth 6

Tour Recorder Improvements:With Google Earth 6, the tour recording feature has been improved in several ways. The tour recorder now incorporates the activation of Sunlight, Street View, and Historical Imagery modes into the recorded tour. Additionally, the quality of the recording has been significantly improved, including better motion fidelity and better synchronization with sound recording.
Earth on PowerPC Mac:We are discontinuing support for Google Earth builds that work on PowerPC Macs. Users of PowerPC macs can still use the Google Earth 5.2 version.
Earth on OS X 10.4:We are discontinuing support for Google Earth builds that work on 10.4 version of Mac OS X. Users of this version of Mac OS X can still use Google Earth 5.2 version.
Earth on Windows 2000:We are discontinuing support for Google Earth builds that work on Windows 2000. Users of Windows 2000 can still use the Google Earth 5.2 version.
Linux Builds:Google Earth Linux binaries are now based on the Linux Standard Base. This improves the compatibility of Google Earth on different Linux distributions, but requires users to have Linux Standard Base installed on their system. If your Linux system does not have LSB, please install it using apt, yum, smart or up2date. As a side effect of moving to LSB, joysticks are currently unsupported.

Issues Fixed

Addressed issues related to slow internal browser and balloon performance
Addressed issues related to broken images in balloons seen in Earth 5.2.
Linux now handles KML in locales where the radix separator isn’t “.”.
Linux fixes for Flash-induced crashes.

Google Earth Plug-in and API Changes

Updated API version 1.007
New class KmlViewerOptions, to set global render state (Historical Imagery, StreetView, and Sun)
Added ability to enable/disable street view in GENavigationControl
Added ability to enable/disable automatic transition to ground level view in GEOptions
Added ability to enable/disable 3d tree rendering through new layer LAYER_TREES
Added altitudeOffset functionality to KmlLinearRing and KmlLineRing. This allows ability to set altitude for all vertices through a single function call.
Added ability to enable/disable building selection through mouse input in GEOptions
Added ability to enable/disable building highlight through mouse input in GEOptions
Added copyAsLookAt() and copyAsCamera() conversion to KmlAbstractView
Improved performance on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

New Features in Google Earth 5.2

Improved embedded browser functionality: Better integration of embedded browser with Google Earth Application.
Track and Multitrack in Google Earth: A track allows you to create one visible object in Google Earth (either a Point icon or a Model) that moves over time between multiple positions. Using the time slider, you can animate position and orientation of an object and show a line tracing the path. A multitrack is a collection of tracks. You can create Track and Multitrack by authoring KML documents or by importing your GPS data (from a number of GPS receivers or file formats such as GPX) into Google Earth.
Elevation Profile in Google Earth: You can see elevation profile of a line-string or track in Google Earth. It plots the elevation profile, speed, and associated extended data (for example, heart rate) in a KML file.
Added file import types: NMEA (.log and .nmea), Garmin GDB, Garmin Training Center, and Ozi Explorer files can now all be read. Garmin fitness extensions are now read from GPX. Extended data for Elevation Profile and Track is handled when available.

New Features available in Google Earth Pro 5.2
In addition to features present in Google Earth Consumer version, Google Earth Pro version has support for the following additional features.

Additional Layers in Google Earth Pro:
1. US Demographics: Provided by Nielsen Claritas, shows United States Census Tract Data, including income, age, ethnicity, household size, marital status and more for 2010, as well as a projection for 2015.
2. US Parcel Data: Provided by DataQuick, shows critical parcel and building information for commercial and residential real estate within the United States.
3. US DailyTraffic Counts: Provided by Market Planning Solutions Inc., shows the concentration of automobile traffic for different areas within the United States.
Creation of Efficient Regionated KML for vectors and images: You can now create hierarchical, vector data and image overlays in Google Earth Pro.
Improvements to Draw and Measure tools: Changes make it easier to measure and draw. You can also see measurements by selecting properties of an object now.
General Improvements to importing Spreadsheet Data & Applying Style Templates
Other Changes include:
- Improved polygon rendering.
- Bug fixes for polygons and image overlays spanning date-line/anti-meridian.
- Bug fixes to allow getting closer to 3D models.
- Bug fixes for anti-aliased lines and points in Google Earth.
- Improved stability and memory consumption by Google Earth Application.
- Minor enhancements to Time UI in Google Earth Application.
- New icons for Pro and EC versions of Google Earth.
- Reduced aliasing/shimmer in Historical imagery mode.
- For Consumer and Pro version, moved Terrain setting to options menu from layers panel.
- Improved Earth Gallery integration in application and changed Add Content Button to Earth Gallery button on layers panel.
- Added support for ZH-HK language.
- Added support for MGRS coordinate system.
- Added support for editing coordinates in UTM.

Known Issues and Workarounds

In Google Earth Pro, while using movie-making with high resolutions you could run into issues of text and view being distorted in OpenGL mode. We are fixing this issue. If you run into this issue, there are three workarounds

Use window size such that 3D view is larger than resolution of movie being recorded.
Use window size such that both vertical and horizontal size of 3D window is smaller than resolution needed.
If you are using windows platform, you can use DirectX mode.

Changes for Google Earth Plug-in 5.2

Enhanced Time support:
- ability to toggle Historical imagery in Google Earth Plug-in (#235)
- ability to create timestamps and timespans (#177).
- ability to toggle time UI (#202)
- ability to set plug-in’s clock rate. (#208, #143, #381, #419, #396)
- ability to set the plug-in’s virtual time/clock (#104)
- Improved accessors:
  - getUrl
  - getComputedStyle (#392)
  - getElementbyUrl
  - getElementbyId (fixed #60)
  - getElementbyType
  - getElementsByStyleUrl
  - Access to Balloon Content
  - Ability to get balloon content using getBalloonDescription, getBalloonHtml, and getBalloonHtmlUnsafe (#16) (#97).

Release-opmerkingen voor Google Earth 5.0 Nieuw in Google Earth 5.0 en hoger:

Ondersteuning voor het weergeven van onderwaterterrein, waterspiegel en 3D-modellen onder water.
Ondersteuning voor historische afbeeldingen met inbegrip van nieuw UI-element waarmee onderdelen van historische afbeeldingen kunnen worden geselecteerd.
Nieuwe tourfunctie waarmee het mogelijk is een tour of presentatie op te nemen en af te spelen. Tevens is het opnemen en afspelen van geluid mogelijk.
Ondersteuning voor volledige HTML, JavaScript en iframes in ballonnen die in Earth worden weergegeven.
Ondersteuning voor beelden, terreinen of lagen op Mars via dropdown-menu voor lucht en planeten.
Ondersteuning voor 15 nieuwe talen. In totaal worden nu 41 talen ondersteund.
Nieuwe algemene gebruikersinterface voor tijd in Earth, waarbij zonlicht, tijdgebaseerde KML en historische afbeeldingen worden ondersteund.
Opnieuw ontworpen pictogrammen van gebruikersinterface en startscherm.
Ondersteuning voor het openen van ballonnen met beschrijvingen door op lijnen en polygonen te klikken.
Ondersteuning voor willekeurige hoekposities voor grondoverlays.
3D-gebouwen standaard ingeschakeld op machines die dit ondersteunen.
Anti-aliasing van volledige scène in OpenGL-modus op Windows-systemen.
Trackimport van GPS-apparaat (46 nieuwe apparaten) en realtime tracking nu in kosteloze versie. U vindt meer informatie op http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/ug_gps.html
Duidelijkere bouncing van labels bij KML-content.
Aparte installatieprogramma's aangestuurd bij installatie voor alle gebruikers of individuele gebruiker onder Windows.

Improvements in Google Earth 5.0:

Faster start-up time.
Earth honors cache settings more rigorously.
Faster processing of KML files.
Significant performance improvements for 3D buildings in DirectX mode.
Enhanced support for anisotropic filtering.
Improved level of detail computation for better performance and quality.
Use OGC standard KML name when saving KML files.
Support for installers for users with non-administrative priviledges on Vista.
Improved performace for regionated KML files.
Improved performance in Pro version printing images, saving images and capturing movies.
Added HD view / output sizes.

Known Issues in Google Earth 5.0:

In low memory situations, 3D buildings may not get displayed on Earth. Some of the workarounds include increasing cache size from options menu, restoring defaults from options menu, restarting application and clearing memory cache.
On some windows systems, sound recording may not work. In this case, you can fix it by installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86).
For KML content, balloon formatting may be different as compared to previous versions and an unnecessary horizontal scroll bar may show up.
Switching to sky from Mars does not change the search box to do sky search. As a workaround, you would need to switch to Earth and switch back to sky.
Sometimes, overlays drawn on ocean surface may also get drawn on the underwater terrain.
Missing images in balloons may cause balloons to flicker.
In KMZ files with network links, styles from a link do not always override styles from parent file.
KML files saved from client have unnecessary extra namespace declaration.
Using a "fly to" (by double clicking a place mark) when recording a tour might lead into a jitters in recording.

Opmerkingen bij Google Earth-releases

New features in Google Earth Pro

New features in Google Earth and Google Earth Pro

Issues fixed in this release

Issues fixed in this release

Known issues

New features in Google Earth 6

Other changes in Google Earth 6

Issues Fixed

Google Earth Plug-in and API Changes

New features in Google Earth 5.2 Out of Beta:

Issues fixed in Google Earth 5.2 Out of Beta:

Wat is het probleem met deze selectie?

Stuur ons aanvullende informatie of uw suggesties